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most citedLearning Heuristics over Large Graphs via Deep Reinforcement Learning

69 citations · 175 across the 40 of their papers we have counts for

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47 papers

cs.LG2026

Filter-then-Weight: Online Data Selection and Reweighting for LLM Fine-Tuning

Fangxin Wang, Peyman Baghershahi, Langzhou He +3

Gradient-based data selection offers a principled framework for estimating sample utility in large language model (LLM) fine-tuning, but existing methods are mostly designed for of…

cs.IR2026

Debiasing Message Passing to Mitigate Popularity Bias in GNN-based Collaborative Filtering

Md Aminul Islam, Ahmed Sayeed Faruk, Sourav Medya +1

Collaborative filtering (CF) models based on graph neural networks (GNNs) achieve strong performance in recommender systems by propagating user-item signals over interaction graphs…

cs.LG2026

GRAPHLCP: Structure-Aware Localized Conformal Prediction on Graphs

Peyman Baghershahi, Fangxin Wang, Debmalya Mandal +1

Conformal prediction (CP) provides a distribution-free approach to uncertainty quantification with finite-sample guarantees. However, applying CP to graph neural networks (GNNs) re…

cs.LG2026

Colorful Talks with Graphs: Human-Interpretable Graph Encodings for Large Language Models

Angelo Zangari, Peyman Baghershahi, Sourav Medya

Graph problems are fundamentally challenging for large language models (LLMs). While LLMs excel at processing unstructured text, graph tasks require reasoning over explicit structu…

cs.HC2026

Helping the Helper: LLM-Assisted Problem Articulation for Older Adults Seeking Technology Support

Hasti Sharifi, Homaira Huda Shomee, Melissa Lamar +2

Older adults often struggle to articulate technology support needs due to unfamiliar technical terminology and age-related cognitive changes. We explore how large language models (…

cs.LG2025

SMART: A Surrogate Model for Predicting Application Runtime in Dragonfly Systems

Xin Wang, Pietro Lodi Rizzini, Sourav Medya +1

The Dragonfly network, with its high-radix and low-diameter structure, is a leading interconnect in high-performance computing. A major challenge is workload interference on shared…

cs.LG2025

Preference-driven Knowledge Distillation for Few-shot Node Classification

Xing Wei, Chunchun Chen, Rui Fan +3

Graph neural networks (GNNs) can efficiently process text-attributed graphs (TAGs) due to their message-passing mechanisms, but their training heavily relies on the human-annotated…

cs.CV2025

DesignCLIP: Multimodal Learning with CLIP for Design Patent Understanding

Zhu Wang, Homaira Huda Shomee, Sathya N. Ravi +1

In the field of design patent analysis, traditional tasks such as patent classification and patent image retrieval heavily depend on the image data. However, patent images -- typic…

cs.LG2025

From Nodes to Narratives: Explaining Graph Neural Networks with LLMs and Graph Context

Peyman Baghershahi, Gregoire Fournier, Pranav Nyati +1

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as powerful tools for learning over structured data, including text-attributed graphs (TAGs), which are common in domains such as citation…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

PATENTWRITER: A Benchmarking Study for Patent Drafting with LLMs

Homaira Huda Shomee, Suman Kalyan Maity, Sourav Medya

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as transformative approaches in several important fields. This paper aims for a paradigm shift for patent writing by leveraging LLMs to ov…

cs.LG2025

COMRECGC: Global Graph Counterfactual Explainer through Common Recourse

Gregoire Fournier, Sourav Medya

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely used in various domains such as social networks, molecular biology, or recommendation systems. Concurrently, different explanations me…

cs.LG2025

Freeze, Prompt, and Adapt: A Framework for Source-free Unsupervised GNN Prompting

Peyman Baghershahi, Sourav Medya

Prompt tuning has become a key mechanism for adapting pre-trained Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to new downstream tasks. However, existing approaches are predominantly supervised, r…

math.OC2025

RIDGECUT: Learning Graph Partitioning with Rings and Wedges

Qize Jiang, Angelo Zangari, Linsey Pang +7

Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promise for combinatorial optimization problems on graphs by learning heuristics that generalize across instances. However, effectively incorp…

cs.CL2025★ 5 cited

Temporal Relation Extraction in Clinical Texts: A Span-based Graph Transformer Approach

Rochana Chaturvedi, Peyman Baghershahi, Sourav Medya +1

Temporal information extraction from unstructured text is essential for contextualizing events and deriving actionable insights, particularly in the medical domain. We address the…

cs.IR2025

LLMInit: A Free Lunch from Large Language Models for Selective Initialization of Recommendation

Weizhi Zhang, Liangwei Yang, Wooseong Yang +5

Collaborative filtering (CF) is widely adopted in industrial recommender systems (RecSys) for modeling user-item interactions across numerous applications, but often struggles with…

cs.AI2025

Learning Exposure Mapping Functions for Inferring Heterogeneous Peer Effects

Shishir Adhikari, Sourav Medya, Elena Zheleva

In causal inference, interference refers to the phenomenon in which the actions of peers in a network can influence an individual's outcome. Peer effect refers to the difference in…

cs.LG2024

BANGS: Game-Theoretic Node Selection for Graph Self-Training

Fangxin Wang, Kay Liu, Sourav Medya +1

Graph self-training is a semi-supervised learning method that iteratively selects a set of unlabeled data to retrain the underlying graph neural network (GNN) model and improve its…

cs.LG2024

Design Requirements for Human-Centered Graph Neural Network Explanations

Pantea Habibi, Peyman Baghershahi, Sourav Medya +1

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are powerful graph-based machine-learning models that are popular in various domains, e.g., social media, transportation, and drug discovery. However,…

cs.IR2024★ 7 cited

A Survey on Patent Analysis: From NLP to Multimodal AI

Homaira Huda Shomee, Zhu Wang, Sathya N. Ravi +1

Recent advances in Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated transformative capabilities across diverse domains. The field of patent anal…

cs.LG2024★ 8 cited

Uncertainty in Graph Neural Networks: A Survey

Fangxin Wang, Yuqing Liu, Kay Liu +3

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been extensively used in various real-world applications. However, the predictive uncertainty of GNNs stemming from diverse sources such as inhere…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Game-theoretic Counterfactual Explanation for Graph Neural Networks

Chirag Chhablani, Sarthak Jain, Akshay Channesh +2

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been a powerful tool for node classification tasks in complex networks. However, their decision-making processes remain a black-box to users, maki…

cs.AR2024

VeriBug: An Attention-based Framework for Bug-Localization in Hardware Designs

Giuseppe Stracquadanio, Sourav Medya, Stefano Quer +1

In recent years, there has been an exponential growth in the size and complexity of System-on-Chip designs targeting different specialized applications. The cost of an undetected b…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

COMBHelper: A Neural Approach to Reduce Search Space for Graph Combinatorial Problems

Hao Tian, Sourav Medya, Wei Ye

Combinatorial Optimization (CO) problems over graphs appear routinely in many applications such as in optimizing traffic, viral marketing in social networks, and matching for job a…

cs.LG2023

DGCLUSTER: A Neural Framework for Attributed Graph Clustering via Modularity Maximization

Aritra Bhowmick, Mert Kosan, Zexi Huang +2

Graph clustering is a fundamental and challenging task in the field of graph mining where the objective is to group the nodes into clusters taking into consideration the topology o…